China Quotes

You cannot just go invest in China, however. The first movers can get killed. There's a saying in Indonesia: 'What you're calling corrupt is Asian family values.'

If you take what China has done from what China was, there's been no achievement on this scale in the entire history of the world.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

I founded Wang Laboratories... to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.

Within a pitifully short time, the China that sat on the Council and was supposed to represent a billion people represented nothing but a steamy Pacific island.

China and North Vietnam are closely united to each other, like the lips and the teeth.

China is an attractive piece of meat covered by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

Man's contribution to human history is nothing more than a drop of sperm.

Let a hundred flowers blossom.

By following the concept of 'one country, two systems,' you don't swallow me up nor I you.

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

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... stricken people, men and women, who beat stones daily and must heave them for five cents a day. In this way, the Chinese are severely punished for their fecundity by the insensitive economic machine. I think they hardly notice it in their obtuseness, but it is sad to see.

This afternoon I visited the Chinese quarter on the mainland side with Elsa. Industrious, filthy, lethargic people. Houses very formulaic, balconies like beehive-cells, everything built close together and monotonous. Behind the harbor, nothing but eateries in front of which Chinese don't sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look lethargic. It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary. Yesterday evening three Portuguese middle-school teachers visited me, who claimed that the Chinese are incapable of being trained to think logically and that they specifically have no talent for mathematics. I noticed how little difference there is between men and women; I don't understand what kind of fatal attraction Chinese women possess that enthralls the corresponding men to such an extent that they are incapable of defending themselves against the formidable blessing of offspring.

Inside and outside in the terrific bustle, quite happy faces. Even those reduced to working like horses never give the impression of conscious suffering. A peculiar herd-like nation, often a respectable paunch, always sound nerves, often resembling automatons more than humans. Sometimes curiosity with grinning. With European visitors like us, comical mutual staring.

Chinese dirty, tormented, lethargic, good-natured, stable, gentle and—healthy. All are unanimous in praising the Chinese but also in regard to his intellectual inferiority in business skills; best evidence: he earns ten times lower wages in an equivalent position, and the European can still compete successfully with him as a business employee.